Year 4 Summer Term 1
English – Pugs of the Frozen North
When True Winter comes, once in a lifetime, teams on sledges pulled by animals take part in the Great Northern Race across the snow, of which there are fifty kinds, to the Snowfather’s palace at the top of the world. Cabin boy Shen, cast adrift from his ship with 66 pug dogs, meets Sika who is desperate to take part in the race. They join forces and exhilarating adventures ensue involving the Kraken, yetis and trolls, not to mention the other participants in the race.
Throughout the unit, the children will:
- explore, interpret and respond to illustrations in a book
- enjoy a story and discuss its meanings
- build an imaginative picture of a fantasy world, based on real life experiences
- explore ideas through role-play and writing in role
- write their own stories based on the story from another character’s point of view
Maths
This term, we will continue our work on decimals. The children will learn to recognise and write decimal equivalents (of any number of tenths or hundredths), compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places, round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number and recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/4; 1/2; 3/4.
The next unit, will be estimating, comparing and calculating using money (pounds and pence).
During our final unit, the children will convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute]
Science – Grouping Living Things
Grouping living things is our Science topic during this term. The children will find out about different species, identify their features and then group and classify them depending on these characteristics.
History- Invasion
This term, we will find out who invaded Britain after the Romans. We will explore the Anglo-Saxon way of life and the reasons they decided to settle here. Then we move on to finding out about the Viking invaders. We will compare the everyday lives of these two invading forces to find similarities and differences.
Computing
This term we will continue the unit ‘Skills Showcase – HTML’, the children will learn to edit the HTML of a web page to change the layout of a website and the text and images.
R.E. – Buddhism
For our final R.E. topic of the year, we will be finding out about one of the world’s main religions, Buddhism. This term, we will be looking at the founder of the religion, and examining some of the key beliefs that Buddhists share.
Music
This term, we will be learning how to play a musical instrument - the recorder. We will learn about the history of the recorder. As we learn to play some notes, we will start to understand staff notation and begin to recognise some notes on the stave. We will continue to describe music using the elements of music - pitch, tempo and dynamics.
Art – Vista
This unit of art will help the children to learn about the techniques that artists use when composing landscape images, such as colour, perspective and atmosphere.
P.E.
This term, the children will be learning about the sport of Handball in their P.E. lessons. They will develop their passing, improve their shooting and learn about movement in the game when they take part in a variety of activities. The children will also learn how to implement basic attacking and defending tactics.
In their second P.E. lesson, the children will be learning about the sport of Rounders. They will be learning how to bowl, bat and field when they take part in a variety of activities and develop their throwing and catching abilities. The children will also be introduced to the rules and scoring of the game over the term.
French
In French, the children will be learning about French food. We will explore ordering and menus -‘Yum Yum’- or ‘Miam, Miam’ in a French café. This unit introduces food vocabulary and revises numbers to 100, this time in the context of money and prices. The unit encourages children to develop their language detective skills and confidence with practical conversational French.
PSHE – Jigsaw – Relationships
Relationships is our PSHE topic this term. We will look at how to make friends, solving problems between friends, how to help ourselves and others when we feel upset or hurt. We will finish by understanding and showing what makes a good friendship.